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Simplicity vs. Elaboration

Posted on January 8, 2025 by JANET L BARKER

I’m leaving. Again. I’m melancholy. Again. I don’t want to leave. Again. But I do. Again and again. Everywhere I leave I love. Same goes for the people I leave. Like my visit with Julie and Ken two days ago or my Littles in… Continue Reading “Simplicity vs. Elaboration”

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Friendship

Posted on October 4, 2024 by JANET L BARKER

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At a back to school-type assembly at his private school in Pacific Palisades, my nephew was asked to publicly proclaim to classmates and the well-heeled adults gathered in the auditorium his goal for third grade: I want to make good friends. D is the most… Continue Reading “Friendship”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #beingvulnerable, #bestfriends, #children, #friends, #friendship, #lessons, #makingfriends, #maryoliver, #outofthemouthsofbabes, family, friendships, life, love

Post 50th High School Reunion Reflection

Posted on July 5, 2024 by JANET L BARKER

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This time yesterday. It does and it doesn’t feel like yesterday. Mostly, it doesn’t because 50 years—half a frickn’ century—have lapsed between the day we ceremoniously ribboned down the metaphoric path from the Boys’ Gym toward Sea Hawk Stadium where, upon the conclusion of… Continue Reading “Post 50th High School Reunion Reflection”

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But today, it is.

Posted on May 26, 2024 by JANET L BARKER

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Moss hangs from a sea of aged oak trees, dancing in the wind outside my friends’ forest-shrouded home in Atascadero, California. I’m residing here for a weekish, babysitting their two precious mini dachshunds as their mum and dad vacation in Kauai. Their original dog… Continue Reading “But today, it is.”

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An unexpected gift

Posted on September 22, 2023 by JANET L BARKER

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How to you begin to describe the feeling? Kayaking on glass with a long-lost friend, being lifted, suspended in a cloud, in a misty dream you once had and forgot; picking huckleberries; crooking your vision up and down, left and right, to gaze at giant… Continue Reading “An unexpected gift”

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There is a season

Posted on March 14, 2022 by JANET L BARKER

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I went to church on Sunday for the first time in many, many years. Not everything is as I remembered. Services don’t take place inside the 100+-year-old white church steeple sanctuary, rather they are held in the 1960s-built Parish Hall and outside in the… Continue Reading “There is a season”

Category: UncategorizedTags: #change, #christepiscopalchurchrb, #episcopal, #faith, #friendship, #grandparent, #hope, #lent, #loveeverymoment, #prayer, #redondobeach, #retirement

in one week

Posted on January 23, 2021 by JANET L BARKER

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I’m gonna be vague. I might be specific. I’m eating steel cut oatmeal on a rainy Saturday morning with my grandson, two pups and ex-husband. The veggie sausages are sizzling and my coffee needs re-freshing. None of this matters and yet everything matters. It’s… Continue Reading “in one week”

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